Category Archives: religion

The non-religious Swiss increases in size

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

A March 31st report by Swissinfo.ch (31st March, 2011) carried news of a survey indicating that one in four Swiss citizens chose to describe themselves as ‘non-religious’. This was significantly up from the 1% who claimed to be non-religous in … Continue reading →

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Non-religious young people in Britain

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

Dr. Rebecca Catto (Lancaster University) has published her initial reflections on a small-sale survey of non-religious young people on the guardian online. ‘Beyond Grayling, Dawkins and Hitchens, a new kind of British atheism‘  reports on a one year project that … Continue reading →

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Europe for Brazilians

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

I’m here in Brazil for the 6th meeting of the Lausanne International Researchers’ Conference. My paper today looks at secularisation in Europe, drawing on data that my colleague, Jim Memory, and I have been collating and analysing from the 2008 … Continue reading →

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The British public on Benedict's social teaching

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Theos reports today on the findings of a ComRes poll of 2,003 British adults in connection with the visit of the Pope. Strikingly, despite popular disapproval about paying for his visit, a majority of the British public was in favour … Continue reading →

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How important is religion to you?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

At the end of August, Gallup released news of a 2009 survey examining the importance of religion for the population of 114 countries, based on telephone and face-to-face interviews. The global average for those who said that religion was important … Continue reading →

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Jedi Knights in the UK there are

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

Yes, it is still summer here in the UK. That’s the traditional time of the year to run items that might not appear as important at other times of the year. This time we feature one of the maps produced … Continue reading →

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